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Dr. Bill Fietje became President of the Associated Gospel Churches in July
2008. Prior to this role, Bill served for five years as our Canada East Superintendent. Before
joining the AGC team, he was the National Director of OMF International-Canada for eleven years. He
and his wife Lois also served for two terms with OMF International in Thailand as church planters and
developers. Bill also served as pastor of Forward Baptist Church in Cambridge, Ontario. In 1999, he
earned his Doctor of Ministry degree at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Hamilton, Massachusetts.
His vision and leadership have helped to birth both MissionFest Toronto and MentorLink
Canada. The Fietjes reside in Niagara-On-The-Lake and have four adult children and five
grandchildren.
Contact Bill at bill@agcofcanada.com
Canada East Superintendent George Boyd joined the AGC staff on July 1, 2008.
George has been involved in AGC pastoral ministry for over 20 years as an associate, a bi-vocational church planter,
and senior pastor in both Western and Eastern Canada. He completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees from
Briercrest Schools in Saskatchewan and, more recently, a doctorate from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
George's life-long ambition is to be a developing servant-leader who is helping others to become all that God
intends them to become through Biblical preaching/teaching, words of encouragement, and an inspiring example.
George and his wife Cynthia live in Burlington. They have three adult sons who have left the "nest" to pursue
their academic and athletic goals.
Contact George at george@agcofcanada.com
Rev. James B. (Jim) Houston was raised in SE Saskatchewan and received his
post-secondary education at Briercrest College (BRE), University Of Regina (BA), Regent College (DipCS)
and Taylor Seminary (MTS). For 27 years he filled various pastoral roles in small
town and urban churches in western Canada with AGC, and other evangelical denominations,
before becoming Canada West Superintendent for the Associated
Gospel Churches in August 2002.
Guided by President Bill Fietje, the Canada West Council and the AGC National Board,
Jim works closely with pastors and leaders to promote biblical health and vitality
in AGC churches through preaching, consultation, encouragement, leadership training,
analysis and problem solving. He works from the AGC Canada West office in his Calgary
home, and travels extensively in his ministry among the 41+ churches of AGC Canada
West.
Jim and Carolyn were married in 1978, and God has blessed them with three great sons, three
wonderful daughters-in-law, and 2 delightful granddaughters. They live in Calgary, AB where
Carolyn works full-time as a Document Control specialist for a manufacturing company. They
attend Crossroads Community Church (AGC) where Jim serves as an elder, and Carolyn is on
the church board as well as teaching adult Sunday School regularly.
Contact Jim at jim@agcofcanada.com
Rev. Del Gibbons serves as the part-time AGC Quebec Director.
Del and his wife Barbara are Crossworld missionaries and have been ministering in Quebec since 1986
following a short term in Indonesia. Del serves with the leadership team of Eglise Evangelique
Associee de Verdun. He is a graduate of Penn State University and Washington Bible College. He has
enjoyed helping in a number of ministries in a supportive role (students, camp, evangelism, CEF).
Barbara coordinates the childrens' teaching at the Verdun church and helps with the CEF Bible Mailbox
Club ministry of Child Evangelism Fellowship in Quebec. They have three adult children.
Del's vision is to encourage the Quebec churches to be making disciples and to be ministries that are
healthy, growing and multiplying.
Contact Del at del@agcofcanada.com
John Friesen - Graduating with a degree in Leisure Studies isn't something many
people like to publicize, however, for John this has been the springboard for a diversity
of experiences from managing the operations of a large theme park to a senior consultant
for the tourism industry and most recently in serving as Executive Director of Fair
Havens Ministries. These experiences have given John an understanding of the challenges
and joys of leading visionary ministry programming while at the same time managing
all the day to day business of camp operations. John also services as Chair of the
National Board for Christian Camping International/Canada (CCI/Canada)
Both John and his wife Lisa thoroughly enjoy life with the five wonderful, high
energy children who inhabit their household ("where have those kids gotten to again
dear?").
Contact John at jfriesen@fairhavens.org
Donna Leung was raised in a loving Christian home in Burlington,
Ontario where her family attended Brant Bible Church (now Compass Point Bible Church). After
several years of working at various jobs, including piano teacher and floral designer, Donna
began volunteering at the Brant Bible Church office and discovered the joy of working in
church ministry. She put her newfound skills into fulltime ministry in 1999, joining the AGC
office staff as Administrative Assistant.
Donna has many responsibilities in this role including managing the day-to-day finances of the
office, giving administrative support to our staff, board and councils, sending out
communications to our churches and pastors, planning and coordinating meetings, summits and
conferences, and registering pastors with the provincial marriage offices.
Donna greatly enjoys participating in the choir and worship teams at Compass Point. She spends
her downtime reading, playing the piano and driving kids to their activities! Donna and her
husband Wayne are parents to 2 teenagers, Delia and Jacob.
Contact Donna at donna@agcofcanada.com
Church Relations Coordinator Susan Page grew up in the
Hamilton/Burlington area. As a young girl she gave her heart to the Lord while attending a Vacation
Bible School. After being taken by a neighbour to a Salvation Army Sunday School she encouraged
her parents to attend.
Susan's first employment experience was as Assistant Manager at a Christian Bookstore. Following
that she worked at a Christian School, in charge of Fund Raising and Development. Years of
employment in the Natural Health Care field helped to prepare her for some of the responsibilities
she now enjoys at the AGC. Administrating the AGC Benefit Plan is a key area of responsibility and
one that she is passionate about. She helps in the processing of Compatibility for ministry
positions in the AGC along with a wide variety of other tasks. She joined the staff of the AGC in
March of 2004.
Susan has two daughters, her oldest Christina serving with Wycliffe in Southeast Asia and her
youngest Jenn who is married to her favourite son in law Markus.
Susan enjoys biking and hiking, reading and photography. Her passion is to be used by God as He
directs. She loves leading a small group and being an encouragement to others in a lay-counselling
role. Susan attends Compass Point Bible Church.
Contact Susan at sue@agcofcanada.com
Finance Manager David Grant has a bachelors degree from University
of Toronto with a B.Sc. in Math. After working in accounting for several years, he has worked in
financial services for the past 15 years, and currently has his own financial consulting company.
Married to Donna Leigh, with 3 teenage children, David currently attends the Summit Church in
Etobicoke, provides leadership in worship there, and is also currently working on a Master's of Theology
program at Heritage Seminary.
Contact David at david@agcofcanada.com